Malachy Browne

Senior Producer, Visual Investigations / The New York Times

United States

Malachy Browne is a senior producer at The New York Times specializing in Visual Investigations, a new form of accountability and explanatory journalism that combines traditional reporting with digital forensics. This may include collecting and parsing information from videos, photos and audio, analysis of satellite imagery and 3-D reconstructions of crime scenes.

Malachy has led investigations into the U.S. Capitol riot, the killing of Breonna Taylor Russian airstrikes on hospitals in Syria, the Las Vegas mass shooting, chemical weapons attacks in Syria, the Saudi officials who killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and the killing of a young Palestinian medic along the Gaza-Israel border. He is a member of teams awarded the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting, a George Polk Award, four News and Documentary Emmys, Overseas Press Club of America Awards, and Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, among others.

Prior to joining The Times in 2016, Mr. Browne worked as a reporter and editor at Storyful and Reported.ly, two social journalism startups; at Village, a current affairs magazine in Ireland; and as a computer programmer.